In the last week I have gotten my hair all chopped off like Jaimie Lee Curtis, although oddly enough it did nothing to improve my looks, and I attended a French cooking class.
So, for this afternoon’s pony, I thought I might show you a few pictures taken at the local “Viking Cooking School” and for the record Viking ovens although not all of their other products are American made. There is a factory in Greenwood Mississippi.
We made seafood crepes, French bread, a French version of apple pie, and beef bourguignon.
Hi all – busy business travel schedule – sorry for my absence from Partying. This time, I’m off to Europe. Hopefully, I’ll get to see the famed Pickle Building in Barcelona.
I trust you’ll party on in my absence! I miss y’all!
no, its not breaking news…it’s me. i’m taking a (at least) 3-week hiatus from the a.m. pony.
there’s no definitive yet as to what, if anything, will replace it. but please always remember that ‘Muse in the Morning” and “Docudharma Times” (or any alternate news thread) always function as open threads as well….
We dharminions dont appear to be morning people anyway…at least from my east coast perspective. 😉
Nina Simone: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
I’m still playing with a deaf machine, so this is a rerun. But it’s a rerun of music from the tough times.
I didn’t actually have a copy of Nina singing the first song. A friend, one of the first 20 people I came out to, made me a tape of two Mary Travers solo albums (Mary and Morning Glory) and that song was included. It kept me going.
Tomorrow I hit the local “Viking Cooking School” for a one day course in French cuisine. I am going to bring the camera and try and get a few shots. I took a course a year or two ago and the kitchen was to die for. We used all commercial grade equipment and it does make a huge difference in time and efficiency. If I won the lottery it would be an awesome treat to do one of those expensive and totally unnecessary kitchen make overs.
I took a few goofy pictures this week. A pair of barn swallows nested in a corner at the front of the house.
This was the nest when it was about half completed. They like to use mud as their base material and stuff twigs, grass, dog hair and whatever in between. Barn swallows are not very keen about human paparazzi. But this week the babies started zipping out of the nest. They like to perch near it. I imagine their wings aren’t quite strong enough for long flights yet.
Look at this one peering out of the top….
Out of the nest….
I think it would be fair to say they were “not that into me”…..
Emily Carr was one of a number of artists who was loosely associated with the Group of Seven. If my memory serves me correctly she was not that much into people and lived in and painted in remote areas of British Columbia because she was solitary be nature and not a traditional woman of her times.
Here are two versions of the same song. The song is unfortunately now the backdrop for a “dockers” commercial….
Sad fact if a song has any resonating force in pop culture,it will be used to sell you shit you don’t want or need.
Sorry I am a bit late this AM, nutty night a work but it all ended well. We have a saying among the other night supervisors “not matter how bad tonight is, we’re gonna have a good night.” A kind of necessary delusion in my line of work.
In the what- if-our-politicians-had-guts category…
and said what they really thought . . . George McGovern is an interesting guy:
“[M]ost Americans see the establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love,” McGovern asserted in one of his campaign speeches. “It is the establishment center that has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster-a terrible cancer eating away the soul of the nation. … It was not the American worker who designed the Vietnam war or our military machine. It was the establishment wise men, the academicians of the center.
“I have no fear of doing battle with some character threatening me with a box cutter. What sets my teeth on edge is seeing a frail little aging woman trying to get her shoes off to be searched, lest she slip by with some trinket that could endanger the republic.”
[The Patriot Act is] “completely unnecessary … a contradiction of the Bill of Rights,” said the 83-year-old McGovern. “I’ll go to jail rather than accept such an invasion of my freedom as an American.”
In the I-know-it’s-only-a-movie category
. . . but this speech stays with me. This is what I want from a leader.
some of my favorite lines…
america isn’t easy. america is advanced citizenship…
we have serious problems to solve. and we need serious people to solve them.
…making you afraid of it and telling you who is to blame for it.
i was so busy keeping my job, i forgot to do my job…
